From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HndGV-0002dO-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:19:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4EGHBnW015860; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:17:11 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4EG9dQg002077 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:09:39 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 395491FF5DD for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE5E1FF5CF for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTPSA id 22837632 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:38 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705141809.37504.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 190b15c9-f176-423d-b34f-0a6b498edfc4 X-Archives-Hash: 59c6129604d9bd94fe6eef787c495e71 On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better > to build every single module and let the system load them as it needs > them. > > - Grant well, from my point of view: everything needed for booting: in kernel everything needed all the time: in kernel everything that needs a good kicking once in a while (usb, sound): modules everything that needs parameters: modules everything that is not needed all the time: module -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list